Murderer Mixed Victim in the Blender

LA man convicted of dismemberment murder

LOS ANGELES — A parolee has been convicted of murder for dismembering a man's body and dumping it in two trash bins in December 2007.

Frank Ruiz had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but was convicted on Thursday. The 23-year-old is scheduled to return to court Monday for the trial's sanity phase.

Authorities say the killing of 47-year-old Patrick Moore was discovered after a cleaning woman found what appeared to be meat in plastic shopping bags in Ruiz's room, and he was told to remove it. Moore's remains were found in two trash bins at a liquor store and a drug store.

Investigators also discovered a blender containing what appeared to be human tissue.

Ruiz had previously been convicted of burglary in 2004.

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Lady Broke Lease by Being Murder Victim

On Christmas Eve 2008, nine members of one family were massacred by an ex-husband of one of the adult women. See that story HERE.

Now the landlord of one of the murder victims is demanding money from her surviving children for penalties this woman accrued for "breaking the lease." Once she was dead, as in being murdered, she apparently stopped paying rent without notice and that violates the lease so the landlord wants the surviving children to pay up. Read that story HERE.

The landlord or property management firm are a bunch of morons.

Three-Year-Old girl beheaded 'in land dispute'

A THREE-year-old girl has been beheaded in Papua New Guinea in an attack thought to be over a land dispute.

Police made the shocking discovery yesterday in Madang province, on PNG's northeastern coast, after residents reported that up to seven men had abducted the girl from the coastal village of Bogia.

Four men have been arrested over her killing.

The police commander of Madang province, Chief Inspector Anthony Wagambie, told PNG's The National newspaper that he was "disgusted'' by the gruesome killing, which he he said was linked to tensions over land.

"Police will continue investigations until all seven suspects are apprehended,'' he said.

The men allegedly attacked the mother, who managed to escape with another child, an infant, Wagambie said.

The body of the girl was still missing.

The murder is believed to be connected to conflict between resettled Manam islanders and Bogia locals.

A series of volcanic eruptions in 2004 forced 15,000 islanders to flee to the mainland and settle in Bogia.

Earlier this year four islanders were reportedly killed during land disputes between the groups.

Kuluguma local ward councillor Charles Yanda said local people want PNG Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare to settle the matter through better land allocations.

"Under no circumstances will the Manam people return to the destroyed island,'' he said.

Lawrence Konaka, president of the Iabu local government area, has also appealed to Mr Somare to intervene on behalf of the islanders.

"The Bogia people hate us and we cannot return to the island because it is in a terrible state,'' he said.

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Flesh-eating Aliens Made Me Kill the Guy!

Man: Flesh-eating aliens were chasing me when I caused fatal car crash

A California man facing life in prison for crashing his car into a UPS truck will not dispute that his actions resulted in the death of the driver when his trial opens Monday in Nevada County Superior Court.

Instead, Scott Krause's defense will argue that the defendant believed he was trying to escape man-eating subterranean beings when he ran into Drew Reynolds' truck on Jan. 6, 2004.

In three court-ordered evaluations, the defendant stated he was fleeing subterranean beings he called "hemadrones" when he carjacked a commercial vehicle near a Nevada City, Calif., gas station and then crashed into Reynolds' service vehicle.

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Truly Weird and Shocking Serial Killers

What Makes Serial Killers Tick?

"It was an urge. ... A strong urge, and the longer I let it go the stronger it got, to where I was taking risks to go out and kill people risks that normally, according to my little rules of operation, I wouldn't take because they could lead to arrest." —Edmund Kemper.

Where does this urge come from, and why is so powerful? If we all experienced this urge, would we be able to resist? Is it genetic, hormonal, biological, or cultural conditioning? Do serial killers have any control over their desires?

We all experience rage and inappropriate sexual instincts, yet we have some sort of internal cage that keeps our inner monsters locked up. Call it morality or social programming, these internal blockades have long since been trampled down in the psychopathic killer. Not only have they let loose the monster within, they are virtual slaves to its beastly appetites. What sets them apart?

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Teenage Girl and Boyfriend Accused of Murdering Her Mother

Teens Arrested in El Dorado Hills Murder Case

FIRST ON FOX40.COM: A teenage murder suspect's MySpace URL make references to a Japanese literary character who battled with incestual feelings

SAN BRUNO - Two teenage suspects accused of killing a 47-year-old El Dorado Hills woman have been apprehended by authorities at a Bay Area mall.

Fourteen-year-old Tylar Witt and her 19-year-old boyfriend Steven "Boston" Colver were taken into custody near an AT&T Wireless retail center at a San Bruno strip mall shortly before 10am Wednesday morning. The two stand accused of murdering 47-year-old El Dorado Hills resident Joanne Witt, who is the mother of the 14-year-old girl.

Authorities believe the two used Joanne Witt's vehicle to flee from El Dorado Hills sometime early this week. The vehicle was recovered along a construction zone in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon.

FOX40 News has learned that Joanne Witt may have previously attempted to press statutory rape charges against Colver.

Friends had urged Colver and Witt to give themselves up via their MySpace and Facebook profiles.

"We're all worried about you here," one Facebook associate wrote on Colver's profile. "You once told me that you would never be capable of such a thing. Prove me right."

"You can't run forever," said another Facebook associate.

Colver and Witt have been associated with the gothic scene. Colver's vanity URL on MySpace refers to a character in Japanese literature who battles with incestual feelings.

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Man 'posed as his dead mother'

A New York man has been arrested for impersonating his dead mother in order to claim $115,000 (£70,500) in social security benefits and rent subsidies.

Thomas Prusik-Parkin, 49, is accused by prosecutors of regularly dressing up in a wig, dress and make-up in order to fool the authorities.

The alleged scam has been going on ever since Mr Prusik-Parkin's mother, Irene Prusik, died in 2003 at the age of 73.

He faces charges of grand larceny (theft), forgery and conspiracy.

"I held my mother when she was dying and breathed in her last breath, so I am my mother," Mr Prusik-Parkin said when he was arrested, according to police.

False information

Using a walking stick, heavy make-up and fake ID, and accompanied by a man posing as Mrs Prusik's nephew, Mr Prusik-Parkin would, according to prosecutors, collect benefit checks, visit banks and even appear in court.

When Mrs Prusik died, Mr Prusik-Parkin is accused of giving her funeral director a false social security number and date of birth so that her death would not show up in government records.

He is then alleged to have started claiming $700 a month in social security benefits in her name on top of his own disability benefits.

Mr Prusik-Parkin has also been accused of filing for bankruptcy in his mother's name, and then collecting $39,000 in rent subsidies from the city government.

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Is that a pidgeon in your pants or are you just glad to see me?

Oh. Well, I guess this guy had pidgeon pants, after all. Photo released by Australian Customs Service which shows a man with pidgeons in his pants on an international flight from Dubai to Melbourne. The man was questioned by authorities after two eggs and some seeds were found in a vitamin container in his luggage.

Anthonys Talk On Anniversary Of Caylee's Disappearance

ORLANDO, Fla. -- It is an emotional day for the family of Caylee Anthony.

"I just miss her. I miss her so much," said Cindy.

It was one year ago Tuesday that George Anthony said he last saw his granddaughter alive. George and Cindy Anthony went on national television Tuesday morning and talked about the heartbreak they have gone through in the last year.

"It's been a tough year. Yesterday was a tough day. Today has been a tough day. Every day has been a tough day this year," Cindy said.

The Anthonys appeared on national TV and talked about their pain of losing Caylee Marie Anthony. George Anthony remembered the last few moments he ever spent with his granddaughter, Caylee.

"Last time I saw her was June 16, one year ago today. I woke up with her in the morning at 7:30 and got a chance to have breakfast with her. Just before 1:00pm that day I didn't realize that would be the last time I would see her," George said Tuesday.

The Anthonys used the interview to offer their help to other families of missing children. They admitted that with the controversy surrounding their granddaughter's disappearance, some families of missing children do not want their help.

Caylee was last seen one year ago Tuesday, but she wasn't reported missing until one month later. Casey Anthony, 23, is in the Orange County jail charged with Caylee's murder. Casey Anthony has pleaded not guilty and says a baby sitter kidnapped her toddler.

Caylee's remains were found in woods near the family's home on December 11.

NEW DOCUMENTS, EVIDENCE RELEASED IN CASEY CASE

Eyewitness News obtained nearly 900 pages of documents and new evidence in the case against Casey Anthony Friday.

The State Attorney's Office released 855 pages of documents Friday morning and Eyewitness News learned the report contains several interviews with people close to Casey Anthony.

The documents also contain new information on people who helped search for Caylee Anthony and information about Casey's employment before Caylee disappeared.

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It seems the Anthonys do not want Caylee's autopsy results made public.

Bag Of Human Organs Leads To Arrest

HAINES CITY, Fla. -- A funeral director in Haines City was arrested and charged Monday after officers say he dumped raw human waste for commercial purposes. Claude Edward Holmes, Jr., 47, was arrested after a bag containing human organs was found by a maintenance worker at the Oakland Cemetery on North 10th Street.

Eyewitness News learned that a Polk County maintenance crew member found the bag buried between two grave vaults while working at the cemetery and attempted to pick the bag up, but could not because it was too heavy. He alerted a supervisor who then helped pull the bag from the ground.

After pulling the bag from the ground, they found a trash bag containing a body bag and a bio-hazard bag. The workers told officers the bags had a strong odor of decomposition.

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Detectives met with Holmes at his place of business where he admitted to burying the remains. He also admitted to dumping remains at the Oakland Cemetery approximately ten to15 times since 2000.

Holmes has an extensive criminal arrest history dating from 1989 to 2008. Arrest charges include fraud, possession of cocaine and marijuana, traffic charges, battery-domestic violence, battery on a law enforcement officer, failure to pay child support, failure to appear, violation of probation and failing to register as a felon. He's currently on probation for resisting arrest without violence.

Claude Holmes was given no bond on the violation of probation charge. A judge, however, set a $2,500 bond on the resisting without violence charge and another $2,500 on the dumping raw human waste for commercial purposes charge.

Holmes remains in jail with no bond and faces up to 7 years in prison for each count of improperly disposing of raw human remains.

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4 Accused Of Forcing 12-Year-Old To Drink Urine

HAWTHORNE, Fla. -- Four people arrested for holding a 12-year-old against his will and forcing him to drink urine at a Boy Scout camp have been dismissed from the scouting program, an official said Monday.

Jack Sears, district executive and CEO of North Florida Boy Scouts, said that officials are "gravely disappointed" and that the actions do not represent the values of scouting.

Kidnapping charges were filed Friday against 21-year-old Wendell Reid and three juveniles, two who are 16 and one who is 15. The juveniles were turned over to the Florida Department of Justice. Jail records do not show if Reid has an attorney. He's being held without bond in the Putnam County Jail.

Reid was attending Camp Shands as one of the adults from Ocala, Sears said.

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Dallas police arrest mother in missing baby case

DALLAS — The mother of a 9-month-old girl who was reported abducted from her home told investigators the baby’s father actually dumped the infant’s dead body into Lewisville Lake near Dallas, according to court documents released Monday.

Tamaira Creagh, 19, was arrested on a charge of tampering with evidence, Dallas police said. Court documents say Creagh, who is six months pregnant, told police this weekend that the child’s body was dumped into the lake after she died while in her father’s care.

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The baby’s father, 20-year-old Alandus Weaver, was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of tampering or fabricating evidence to hinder an investigation.
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Police began searching for Daisja Weaver last Tuesday after her mother reported a man broke into her apartment, tried to sexually assault her then took the baby. Investigators were suspicious from the start because the parents gave conflicting accounts of what happened.

During a meeting with detectives Saturday, Creagh told them she found the baby on the floor wrapped in a towel after Weaver picked her up from work June 8. Weaver said he had given the baby a bath earlier, Creagh told police, according to an affidavit.

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The next day they drove to the lake just north of Dallas, where Weaver stopped at the bridge and then dropped the baby into the water with a sandbag tied to her, Creagh told police.

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The Would-Be Car Thief with Terrible B.O.

The stench left behind by Joshua Graden, who police say they found naked in a Bradenton woman’s car, was almost too much for the owner to bear.

The 35-year-old woman said she got her Chevrolet detailed the day after officers found Graden, 21, of Osprey, nude in the vehicle parked in her driveway.

“I got it sprayed down because it smelled terrible,” the victim told the Bradenton Herald. “I have never seen him in my life. It is kind of creepy.”

At around 2 a.m., Monday, Bradenton police responded to a call for service in the victim’s neighborhood, in the 4900 block of 34th Avenue West. Another resident in the neighborhood had called police after a man he did not recognize was banging on his door demanding to come inside, according to a police report.

When officers arrived, the man had moved on, but police found clothes in the middle of the street, according to the victim.

“The person who first called lives across the street from me, and I guess the police found clothes in the road,” she said.

An officer then noticed a man sitting in the driver’s seat of the Chevrolet across the street from where the call originated. The victim said her Chevrolet had been locked.

“I always lock the car because my kids are always in it,” she said.

The officer confronted Graden in the Chevrolet, who repeated over and over “he didn’t know where he was, or what was going on,” the police report stated.

When the officer asked Graden his name, he began to swear. The owner of the vehicle said an irate Graden threw an umbrella, as well as towelettes and snacks for her two infant children, from the Chevrolet all over her yard.

Police reports say Graden resisted being handcuffed, but officers eventually arrested him on charges of felony burglary of a conveyance and resisting arrest without violence. He has since been released from the Manatee County jail on supervised release on $1,000 bond.

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Weird Criminal: Naked man tied to rock near high school

A South Lake Tahoe man is being held in lieu of $5,000 cash bail for allegedly being naked near high school property.

According to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, three Whittell High School students reported coming across a naked man behind the school who appeared to be tied to a rock and was lying face down.

A student said they asked the man if he was really tied up, which he confirmed.

Then they asked if he needed to be untied and the man answered no.

When asked why he was naked behind the school, the deputy reported Mark said “There were buzzards flying overhead and I wanted to see what they did,” the report said.

Mark had reportedly been arrested for entering Incline Village High School's boy's locker room and disrobing.

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Barrel Monster Bust

Cops: Man created public art with items swiped from construction site

A North Carolina man is facing criminal charges for creating an amusing piece of public art from construction barrels. Joseph Carnevale, 21, was nabbed Wednesday after a Raleigh Police Department investigation determined that he was responsible for the work (seen above) constructed May 31 on a roadway adjacent to North Carolina State University.

Carnevale was charged with misdemeanor larceny for allegedly building his orange monster from materials pilfered from a construction site.

According to an arrest warrant, Carnevale "destroyed three road blocking barrels by cutting and screwing them together to form a statue."

Police estimated that Carnevale's artwork caused $360 in damages to Hamlett Associates, the North Carolina construction company that owned the barrels. Carnevale is scheduled for a July 21 court appearance in Wake County.

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Founder of anti-drug program is held in drug sting

Kendall Craig Farris' website is filled with influential endorsements for the drug prevention program he founded. Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl called them "amazing tools which our schools and communities desperately need" and thanked Farris for meeting with him and his staff.

Something went wrong, however, and Farris was arrested Thursday at a Starbucks in El Segundo after Redondo Beach police set up a drug buy over the phone.

Farris, 47, arrived at the coffeehouse in a taxi, police said. An undercover officer gave him an envelope containing $480 in exchange for methamphetamine and ecstasy tablets, which turned out to be fake, authorities said. Farris was arrested at 3:40 p.m.

Farris was arraigned Friday on charges of selling a substance that he alleged was drugs. He is being held on $106,500 bail and could not be reached for comment.

Farris, according to his website, was founder of the Over the Wall Foundation in Marina del Rey and a recovering alcoholic and addict. His mission, he says, is "to help youth, schools, and families prevent drug and alcohol abuse before it starts, and intervene in any drug abuse which may already have begun."

He is the author of "Drugs, Kids and Crime: Surviving Our Drug Obsessed Culture."

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Another one in need of parenting class

A wild night in Largo ended up with a mom in jail and a teenager recovering from a bashing with a construction level. Cops say 47-year-old Deborah Castonguay had been serving rum shots to underage kids when an argument broke out.

They say Costonguay then tried to kick everyone out of the home at 429 1st Avenue NE.

As the argument escalated, Castonguay confronted her 14-year-old son's girlfriend on the home's porch. According to the police report, she grabbed a 4-foot construction level and hit the teenage girl knocking her out.

Costongual then stopped her son from making a call for emergency help by taking the phone away.

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